Death before Dying
History, Medicine, and Brain Death
Seiten
2014
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-989817-6 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-989817-6 (ISBN)
Death before Dying: History, Medicine, and Brain Death brings fresh perspectives to the historical appearance of the idea of brain death. In doing so, raises larger questions about the place of bioethics in medicine, and the uses of history to be more curious about how medical knowledge can work as a potentially innovative source of values.
Brain death-the condition of a non-functioning brain, has been widely adopted around the world as a definition of death since it was detailed in a Report by an Ad Hoc Committee of Harvard Medical School faculty in 1968. It also remains a focus of controversy and debate, an early source of criticism and scrutiny of the bioethics movement. Death before Dying: History, Medicine, and Brain Death looks at the work of the Committee in a way that has not been attempted before in terms of tracing back the context of its own sources-the reasoning of it Chair, Henry K Beecher, and the care of patients in coma and knowledge about coma and consciousness at the time. That history requires re-thinking the debate over brain death that followed which has tended to cast the Committee's work in ways this book questions. This book, then, also questions common assumptions about the place of bioethics in medicine. This book discusses if the advent of bioethics has distorted and limited the possibilities for harnessing medicine for social progress. It challenges historical scholarship of medicine to be more curious about how medical knowledge can work as a potentially innovative source of values.
Brain death-the condition of a non-functioning brain, has been widely adopted around the world as a definition of death since it was detailed in a Report by an Ad Hoc Committee of Harvard Medical School faculty in 1968. It also remains a focus of controversy and debate, an early source of criticism and scrutiny of the bioethics movement. Death before Dying: History, Medicine, and Brain Death looks at the work of the Committee in a way that has not been attempted before in terms of tracing back the context of its own sources-the reasoning of it Chair, Henry K Beecher, and the care of patients in coma and knowledge about coma and consciousness at the time. That history requires re-thinking the debate over brain death that followed which has tended to cast the Committee's work in ways this book questions. This book, then, also questions common assumptions about the place of bioethics in medicine. This book discusses if the advent of bioethics has distorted and limited the possibilities for harnessing medicine for social progress. It challenges historical scholarship of medicine to be more curious about how medical knowledge can work as a potentially innovative source of values.
Gary S. Belkin, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.Senior Director for Psychiatric ServicesNYC Health and Hospitals CorporationOffice of Behavioral HealthAssociate Professor and Director, Program in Global Mental HealthNYU School of MedicineNew York, NY 10016Ph: 212.788.3476 (c): 401-499-7745
1. Strange Business ; 2. The Justification: Beecher's Ethics ; 3. The Law ; 4. The Criteria I: The Waking Brain-Brainstem and the Discourse of Consciousness ; 5. The Criteria II: The Working Brain: The Comatose Patient and the Biology of Consciousness ; 6. Brain Death After Beecher and the Limits of Bioethics
| Zusatzinfo | 4 illustrations |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 239 x 160 mm |
| Gewicht | 576 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Intensivmedizin |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-989817-0 / 0199898170 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-989817-6 / 9780199898176 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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